Finished!

 

I haven't been very good at documenting this recently, but the pineapple baritone ukulele is now finished. I fitted nylgut strings  from Strings Direct and it sounds mellow and reasonably loud.

The instrument is for me to play - my hands are large and I have some osteoarthritis in the joints which makes playing some instruments quite painful, even after a few minutes. This 'Pineapple' has quite a long scale length (51cm), widely spaced strings (the neck is 4.2cm at the nut), a compound radiused fretboard (35cm at the nut, flat at the soundhole) and a peghead that lets my hand travel back to the first fret easier (the tuners are set further back). Time will tell whether these help, but first impressions are good.

I will be putting away the luthiery equipment for a little while as I'm making a boat (a Mill Creek 16.5) over the next few months and the garage will be very crowded. I hope to cover these adventures in a separate blog.